- culture
- April 3, 2019
'Journeys of Faith': Dave Ramsey on finding God
In a new episode of "Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris," a podcast featuring conversations about how faith has guided newsmakers and celebrities through their best and worst times, ABC News' Paula Faris sits down with radio show host and entrepreneur Dave Ramsey. Listen now -- new episodes available every Wednesday. Here is Paula, in her own words, about the episode. Dave Ramsey says he was a “hell-raising, beer-drinking hillbilly kid” until he found his faith as an adult. Everything seemed to be looking up. But then he went broke -- with a wife and two young kids. It wasn’t mere failure, he tells me. “It was epic failure. It was like an atomic bomb was dropped on our lives.” Ramsey ultimately built a multi-million-dollar empire around helping people get out of debt, but there was a time when he wasn’t sure he could put food on the table. And then the utility company cut the lights because he couldn’t pay the bill. “One year I made $200,000, and the next year I made $6,000 --...